Best movie you have ever seen?

[Boner_18]

Fave: Big Lebowski

[Mudcat]

Anyone who follows things at imdb.com has seen some interesting activity in recent times regarding this question of best movie ever.

For the longest time the top 3 movies were

Godfather
Godfather II
Shawshank Redemption

(I may have 2 and 3 reversed but anyway)

So The Dark Knight comes along and its following of extreme fanboys wanted it to be #1. So they bombarded it with 10 votes - and also bombarded the others with 1 votes (because rankings are based on member voting).

And they succeeded - for awhile. The Dark Knight was #1 for a good stretch. The Godfather got the worst of it and got knocked behind Shawshank.

Long story short, TDK has slowly settled into the 4th spot. But all the unbalanced manipulation attempts caused Shawshank to leapfrog into #1 where it remains. It is followed by Godfather and Godfather 2.



Man there has been a lot of bickering and whining on the message boards over there since the TDK came out and the fanboys came to life.

[zentiense]

Here are just a few directors and flicks I really dig: Lars von Trier, Kurosawa, Apocalypse Now, The 400 Blows, The Bicycle Thief, There Will Be Blood (best in the last decade or so), Aronofsky, Inarritu (Amores Perros especially), Indiana Jones 3 (best adventure film of all time? probably.), A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Grave of the Fireflies, City of God

I've tried to mix in Indie stuff, foreign stuff, American stuff, old stuff, new stuff, adventure, drama, everything. Just a list in no particular order.

[RogueJuror]

Anyone who follows things at imdb.com has seen some interesting activity in recent times regarding this question of best movie ever.

For the longest time the top 3 movies were

Godfather
Godfather II
Shawshank Redemption

(I may have 2 and 3 reversed but anyway)

So The Dark Knight comes along and its following of extreme fanboys wanted it to be #1. So they bombarded it with 10 votes - and also bombarded the others with 1 votes (because rankings are based on member voting).

And they succeeded - for awhile. The Dark Knight was #1 for a good stretch. The Godfather got the worst of it and got knocked behind Shawshank.

Long story short, TDK has slowly settled into the 4th spot. But all the unbalanced manipulation attempts caused Shawshank to leapfrog into #1 where it remains. It is followed by Godfather and Godfather 2.



Man there has been a lot of bickering and whining on the message boards over there since the TDK came out and the fanboys came to life.

wow, I guess everybody has their own net sh!t huh. I can't call them crazy cause hell they'ld call us crazy for posting here feverishly. Maybe sbr poster could orchestrate something like that, maybe go into another non gamblin forum and power post for a day talking back and forth between us.

[Mudcat]

imdb has its own vibe in terms of posting. It can be good and it can be every bit as stupid as some of the stuff that happens here.

But somehow their list of top movies, despite the fact it comes from votes on a public forum, has always been reasonably good.

FWIW, I'll copy the top 100 here. People should note that many of them are listed in the original languages (ex - #5 is better known here as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. #13 is The Seven Samurai etc.):



1. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 380,927
2. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 323,644
3. 9.0 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 184,238
4. 9.0 The Dark Knight (2008) 291,048
5. 8.9 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966) 108,920
6. 8.9 Pulp Fiction (1994) 316,860
7. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 209,704
8. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 159,910
9. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 220,473
10. 8.8 12 Angry Men (1957) 78,526
11. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 133,935
12. 8.8 Star Wars (1977) 261,563
13. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 75,924
14. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 280,581
15. 8.7 Goodfellas (1990) 173,280
16. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 90,653
17. 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 196,907
18. 8.7 Cidade de Deus (2002) 115,092
19. 8.7 C'era una volta il West (1968) 52,690
20. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 309,798
21. 8.7 The Usual Suspects (1995) 212,010
22. 8.7 Psycho (1960) 110,497
23. 8.7 Fight Club (1999) 283,856
24. 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 189,166
25. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 126,059
26. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 72,539
27. 8.6 Memento (2000) 205,778
28. 8.6 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 39,553
29. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 113,129
30. 8.6 The Matrix (1999) 296,454
31. 8.6 WALL·E (2008) 80,385
32. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 257,577
33. 8.6 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 79,776
34. 8.6 Se7en (1995) 208,113
35. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 63,387
36. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979) 136,393
37. 8.5 Léon (1994) 144,304
38. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976) 116,256
39. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 230,304
40. 8.5 American History X (1998) 165,099
41. 8.5 Vertigo (1958) 70,749
42. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 137,501
43. 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957) 33,281
44. 8.5 M (1931) 29,632
45. 8.5 The Departed (2006) 188,533
46. 8.5 Forrest Gump (1994) 220,951
47. 8.5 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 64,607
48. 8.4 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 148,401
49. 8.4 Alien (1979) 137,704
50. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) 59,428
51. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 39,208
52. 8.4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 24,814
53. 8.4 Leben der Anderen, Das (2006) 45,853
54. 8.4 Double Indemnity (1944) 26,985
55. 8.4 The Shining (1980) 131,170
56. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 93,609
57. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 162,241
58. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 72,862
59. 8.4 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 210,370
60. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 125,628
61. 8.4 Laberinto del fauno, El (2006) 108,526
62. 8.4 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 134,925
63. 8.4 L.A. Confidential (1997) 132,849
64. 8.4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 174,324
65. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 46,018
66. 8.4 Aliens (1986) 131,581
67. 8.4 Boot, Das (1981) 56,204
68. 8.4 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 162,142
69. 8.4 Rashômon (1950) 28,929
70. 8.4 The Maltese Falcon (1941) 40,302
71. 8.4 Raging Bull (1980) 68,118
72. 8.4 Metropolis (1927) 29,200
73. 8.4 City Lights (1931) 19,008
74. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 56,847
75. 8.3 Modern Times (1936) 25,727
76. 8.3 All About Eve (1950) 27,148
77. 8.3 Rebecca (1940) 26,488
78. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 42,713
79. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 51,856
80. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 125,941
81. 8.3 Amadeus (1984) 75,181
82. 8.3 The Prestige (2006) 137,375
83. 8.3 No Country for Old Men (2007) 135,291
84. 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997) 81,014
85. 8.3 The Elephant Man (1980) 42,577
86. 8.3 Sin City (2005) 191,229
87. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963) 47,010
88. 8.3 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) 33,408
89. 8.3 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 26,719
90. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 66,087
91. 8.3 On the Waterfront (1954) 30,843
92. 8.3 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 113,705
93. 8.3 The Apartment (1960) 26,500
94. 8.3 The Sting (1973) 50,589
95. 8.3 Touch of Evil (1958) 24,628
96. 8.3 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 53,152
97. 8.3 Batman Begins (2005) 205,715
98. 8.3 The Great Dictator (1940) 26,628
99. 8.3 There Will Be Blood (2007) 86,041
100. 8.3 Jaws (1975) 107,222

[Sushkillah]

Goodfellas Gotti

[picantel]

a beautiful mind
spy game

anyone remember when they picked a beautiful mind of lord of the rings as best picture. It was a complete joke and like comparing hersheys to godiva. Crowe did a great impression of bush though without the inner intelligence of course.

[SportNut]

Blood In Blood Out -

vatos locos for ever

Oh yeah!!

[SportNut]

Forrest Gump!

[element1286]

Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Dazed and Confused are my top 3.

[element1286]

anyone remember when they picked a beautiful mind of lord of the rings as best picture. It was a complete joke and like comparing hersheys to godiva. Crowe did a great impression of bush though without the inner intelligence of course.

Eh, I liked both a lot. There are definably more outrageous ones. Shakespeare in Love over anything. Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas.

Rocky over Taxi Driver, Network, and All the President's Men.

[element1286]

Anyone who follows things at imdb.com has seen some interesting activity in recent times regarding this question of best movie ever.

For the longest time the top 3 movies were

Godfather
Godfather II
Shawshank Redemption

(I may have 2 and 3 reversed but anyway)

So The Dark Knight comes along and its following of extreme fanboys wanted it to be #1. So they bombarded it with 10 votes - and also bombarded the others with 1 votes (because rankings are based on member voting).

And they succeeded - for awhile. The Dark Knight was #1 for a good stretch. The Godfather got the worst of it and got knocked behind Shawshank.

Long story short, TDK has slowly settled into the 4th spot. But all the unbalanced manipulation attempts caused Shawshank to leapfrog into #1 where it remains. It is followed by Godfather and Godfather 2.



Man there has been a lot of bickering and whining on the message boards over there since the TDK came out and the fanboys came to life.

That movie annoys me. The Dark Knight was good, but the fourth best of all time is absolutely ridiculous.

[LVHerbie]

I add my favorite movie, Brazil, to the list...

[Mudcat]

That movie annoys me. The Dark Knight was good, but the fourth best of all time is absolutely ridiculous.

I liked it fine but things went overboard with the comic book nerd crowd at imdb.

But I guess they are more internet-oriented than the Godfather crowd and, almost by definition, they don't have much of a life so they had lots of time to focus on manipulating this list on a website - and they got some results. It was #1 for quite awhile.

I don't know if it will drop below 4. It very well might.

[Willie Bee]

Good to see 12 Angry Men still up there on the list. One of the greatest films ever made.

[Bread]

Dark Knight FOURTH BEST MOVIE OF ALLTIME?!?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!

Robyn and I disagree:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=136369114&blogID=429396280&Mytoken=36BFB423-2CAC-4E84-9B8CE1B5CFF9C6C6208178330

[mmike032]

"Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" destined to become a cult classic
"No Country For Old Men"

[AgainstAllOdds]

One of the movies Ive watched since I was a little kid was Backdraft...Not too many people have heard of it but none the less one of my favs.

Braveheart, Drumline and Changing lanes are just to name a few others.

[Mudcat]

Dark Knight FOURTH BEST MOVIE OF ALLTIME?!?? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!

Robyn and I disagree:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...9C6C6208178330

Interesting read. I thought I liked the movie but after reading that, I'm not so sure. There weren't many points you made on the "con" side that I didn't agree with.

Actually I kind of want to see it again with more focus. I went with a date and I was constantly distracted by doubt and concern that I had dragged her out to something she wasn't enjoying. (That turned out to be true).

(btw - sorry if I'm being a know-it-all smarty-pants but The Scream was by Munch.)

[SBR Lou]

imdb has its own vibe in terms of posting. It can be good and it can be every bit as stupid as some of the stuff that happens here.

But somehow their list of top movies, despite the fact it comes from votes on a public forum, has always been reasonably good.

FWIW, I'll copy the top 100 here. People should note that many of them are listed in the original languages (ex - #5 is better known here as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. #13 is The Seven Samurai etc.):



1. 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 380,927
2. 9.1 The Godfather (1972) 323,644
3. 9.0 The Godfather: Part II (1974) 184,238
4. 9.0 The Dark Knight (2008) 291,048
5. 8.9 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo., Il (1966) 108,920
6. 8.9 Pulp Fiction (1994) 316,860
7. 8.8 Schindler's List (1993) 209,704
8. 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 159,910
9. 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 220,473
10. 8.8 12 Angry Men (1957) 78,526
11. 8.8 Casablanca (1942) 133,935
12. 8.8 Star Wars (1977) 261,563
13. 8.8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 75,924
14. 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 280,581
15. 8.7 Goodfellas (1990) 173,280
16. 8.7 Rear Window (1954) 90,653
17. 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 196,907
18. 8.7 Cidade de Deus (2002) 115,092
19. 8.7 C'era una volta il West (1968) 52,690
20. 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 309,798
21. 8.7 The Usual Suspects (1995) 212,010
22. 8.7 Psycho (1960) 110,497
23. 8.7 Fight Club (1999) 283,856
24. 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 189,166
25. 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 126,059
26. 8.6 North by Northwest (1959) 72,539
27. 8.6 Memento (2000) 205,778
28. 8.6 Sunset Blvd. (1950) 39,553
29. 8.6 Citizen Kane (1941) 113,129
30. 8.6 The Matrix (1999) 296,454
31. 8.6 WALL·E (2008) 80,385
32. 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 257,577
33. 8.6 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 79,776
34. 8.6 Se7en (1995) 208,113
35. 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 63,387
36. 8.5 Apocalypse Now (1979) 136,393
37. 8.5 Léon (1994) 144,304
38. 8.5 Taxi Driver (1976) 116,256
39. 8.5 American Beauty (1999) 230,304
40. 8.5 American History X (1998) 165,099
41. 8.5 Vertigo (1958) 70,749
42. 8.5 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 137,501
43. 8.5 Paths of Glory (1957) 33,281
44. 8.5 M (1931) 29,632
45. 8.5 The Departed (2006) 188,533
46. 8.5 Forrest Gump (1994) 220,951
47. 8.5 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 64,607
48. 8.4 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 148,401
49. 8.4 Alien (1979) 137,704
50. 8.4 Chinatown (1974) 59,428
51. 8.4 The Third Man (1949) 39,208
52. 8.4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 24,814
53. 8.4 Leben der Anderen, Das (2006) 45,853
54. 8.4 Double Indemnity (1944) 26,985
55. 8.4 The Shining (1980) 131,170
56. 8.4 The Pianist (2002) 93,609
57. 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 162,241
58. 8.4 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) 72,862
59. 8.4 Saving Private Ryan (1998) 210,370
60. 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 125,628
61. 8.4 Laberinto del fauno, El (2006) 108,526
62. 8.4 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 134,925
63. 8.4 L.A. Confidential (1997) 132,849
64. 8.4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 174,324
65. 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 46,018
66. 8.4 Aliens (1986) 131,581
67. 8.4 Boot, Das (1981) 56,204
68. 8.4 Reservoir Dogs (1992) 162,142
69. 8.4 Rashômon (1950) 28,929
70. 8.4 The Maltese Falcon (1941) 40,302
71. 8.4 Raging Bull (1980) 68,118
72. 8.4 Metropolis (1927) 29,200
73. 8.4 City Lights (1931) 19,008
74. 8.4 Untergang, Der (2004) 56,847
75. 8.3 Modern Times (1936) 25,727
76. 8.3 All About Eve (1950) 27,148
77. 8.3 Rebecca (1940) 26,488
78. 8.3 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 42,713
79. 8.3 Some Like It Hot (1959) 51,856
80. 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 125,941
81. 8.3 Amadeus (1984) 75,181
82. 8.3 The Prestige (2006) 137,375
83. 8.3 No Country for Old Men (2007) 135,291
84. 8.3 Vita è bella, La (1997) 81,014
85. 8.3 The Elephant Man (1980) 42,577
86. 8.3 Sin City (2005) 191,229
87. 8.3 The Great Escape (1963) 47,010
88. 8.3 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) 33,408
89. 8.3 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957) 26,719
90. 8.3 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 66,087
91. 8.3 On the Waterfront (1954) 30,843
92. 8.3 Full Metal Jacket (1987) 113,705
93. 8.3 The Apartment (1960) 26,500
94. 8.3 The Sting (1973) 50,589
95. 8.3 Touch of Evil (1958) 24,628
96. 8.3 Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 53,152
97. 8.3 Batman Begins (2005) 205,715
98. 8.3 The Great Dictator (1940) 26,628
99. 8.3 There Will Be Blood (2007) 86,041
100. 8.3 Jaws (1975) 107,222

The Lord of the Rings is listed over Goodfellas?

[smitch124]

Stand By Me

[Panic]

[RogueJuror]

Death and the Maiden - trailer

about the victims of the argentine dictatorship

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Dark Knight was mediocre, shouldn't be anywhere near the top 500, let alone the top 10. I quite liked Batman Begins though.

[Mudcat]

Yeah, the Dark Knight would probably be #4 on my list of best Christopher Nolan movies.

Top 4 all-around movie of all time?

Gimme a break.

[element1286]

Good to see 12 Angry Men still up there on the list. One of the greatest films ever made.

An absolute classic, what a great movie.

[Sinister Cat]

I add my favorite movie, Brazil, to the list...

good call

[Sinister Cat]

I think my favorite is Being John Malkovich

[AMBlai01]

I love Gladiator and A Clockwork Orange....my two favorites..

[ryanXL977]

big lebowskiw
bya mile

[3PtShooter]

add slingblade to the list

[flyingillini]

Once Upon a Time in America

[Scratch]

Reservoir Dogs for me. without any doubt

[HeeeHAWWWW]

Yeah, the Dark Knight would probably be #4 on my list of best Christopher Nolan movies.

You haven't seen Insomnia then? :-)

[reno cool]

Fave: Big Lebowski

Anybody mention American Beauty?